{"id":605062,"date":"2019-04-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=79e24af7eb9b0ef19098d6d62bb042b4"},"modified":"2019-04-11T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:00:00","slug":"plato-ccd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=605062","title":{"rendered":"Plato CCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2019\/04\/plato_ccd\/19340615-1-eng-GB\/Plato_CCD_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis is one of the 104 charge-coupled devices, or CCDs, that will fly on the science payload of ESA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/plato\/\">Plato<\/a>&nbsp;mission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPlato, the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars mission, is an ESA mission dedicated to finding and studying extrasolar planetary systems, with a special emphasis on rocky planets around Sun-like stars and their habitable zone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe CCDs will be a key element of the largest digital combined camera ever flown in space. This camera will receive light from 26 telescopes, all mounted on a single satellite platform.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEach telescope will include four CCDs, which produce each an image of 20 megapixels. Each telescope will therefore comprise about 80 megapixels, resulting in a full satellite total of 2.12 gigapixels.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe large format of the CCDs \u2013&nbsp;approximately 8 cm x 8 cm per detector \u2013 will result in a total optically sensitive surface of&nbsp;0.74 square metres.&nbsp;The detectors will work at a temperature lower than \u201365\u00b0C to maximise their sensitivity.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThese CCDs, which are being provided by ESA, are made by&nbsp;Teledyne e2v in the UK.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore information:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/jump.cfm?oid=61280\">Delivery of first detectors for Plato\u2019s exoplanet mission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2019\/04\/plato_ccd\/19340615-1-eng-GB\/Plato_CCD_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThis is one of the 104 charge-coupled devices, or CCDs, that will fly on the science payload of ESA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/plato\/\">Plato<\/a>&nbsp;mission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPlato, the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars mission, is an ESA mission dedicated to finding and studying extrasolar planetary systems, with a special emphasis on rocky planets around Sun-like stars and their habitable zone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe CCDs will be a key element of the largest digital combined camera ever flown in space. This camera will receive light from 26 telescopes, all mounted on a single satellite platform.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEach telescope will include four CCDs, which produce each an image of 20 megapixels. Each telescope will therefore comprise about 80 megapixels, resulting in a full satellite total of 2.12 gigapixels.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe large format of the CCDs &ndash;&nbsp;approximately 8 cm x 8 cm per detector &ndash; will result in a total optically sensitive surface of&nbsp;0.74 square metres.&nbsp;The detectors will work at a temperature lower than &ndash;65&deg;C to maximise their sensitivity.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThese CCDs, which are being provided by ESA, are made by&nbsp;Teledyne e2v in the UK.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore information:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/jump.cfm?oid=61280\">Delivery of first detectors for Plato&rsquo;s exoplanet mission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605063,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605062\/revisions\/605063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}